An unstructured phylogeographic pattern with extensive gene flow in an endemic bird of South China: collared Finchbill (Spizixos semitorques).

ABSTRACT: Recent phylogeographical studies indicated that glacial oscillations played a key role on the phylogeographic pattern of extant species. As most studies have previously been carried out on heavily ice-covered regions, such as in European and North American regions, potential effects of climatic oscillations on species that are distributed on ice-free regions are less known. To address this, we investigated the phylogeographic pattern of an avian species endemic to South China, which was not glaciated during the Pleistocene glaciations. By using 2142 bp mitochondrial DNA, we identified 89 haplotypes defined by 39 polymorphic sites. A combination of high haplotype diversity (0.786-1.00) and low nucleotide diversity (0.00132-0.00252) was detected among geographic populations. Explicit genetic

SUBMITTER: Gao B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3131583 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature